Fresh
It's a chilly, often slow, uncompromisingly harsh film, but Refn's images will sear your retinas.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Valhalla Rising
2010 · 1h 33m · Not Rated
Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Nicolas Winding Refn
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Valhalla Rising
Overview
Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Rotten
If only the pieces added up to an experience that sticks and that didn't finally succumb to a shrug of entropy.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
You sometimes wish Refn's gift for Ridley Scott-level mayhem had won the battle over his much iffier Werner Herzog leanings.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
It's a trip into a primordial world and primeval sensibilities, and if you're looking to shake off the mall-movie blahs, there are few better places to look.
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal
Fresh
Like a John Milius film reduced to its pure, masculine essence and shot through one of Alejandro Jodorowsky's lens filters.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
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